News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging KAVON ROGERS, 27, of New Haven...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Larry Andrews (41, Jacksonville) to 14 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The court also entered a money judgment against Andrews for $98,000, which represents drug proceeds that he laundered through a Jacksonville nightclub. He pleaded guilty on Jan. 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - An investigation into suspicious cash transactions led to eight individuals from California, Louisiana, Florida, and Ohio being charged with conspiring to distribute marijuana and conspiring to structure cash transactions. All defendants will appear in federal court in Fresno on the charges in the coming weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Gregory Allen Rhea, 38, of Morristown, Tenn., was sentenced on Oct. 27, 2014, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 288 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and methamphetamine, maintaining a place for the purpose of distributing controlled substances, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted three more people in connection with a series of violent crimes including 13 unsolved murders as well as other attempted murders, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, extortion and robbery. The addition to the indictment includes an additional 23 felonies, including one murder and nine attempted murders.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Harland Fields, 28, of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2014
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. -Bison from Wind Cave National Park were recently sent to help form new or augment existing herds in five different states. The transfer of these 103 bison is part of an agreement with The Nature Conservancy to form conservation herds with bison from Wind Cave National Park. The Wind Cave herd is known for its brucellosis free status and high levels of genetic purity and diversity.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) today announced nine topics and 26 new subtopics under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Technology Transfer (STTR) programs that will help small businesses develop and deliver market-driven clean energy technologies.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske and I are pleased to announce the selection of Mr. Kevin K. McAleenan as the Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Mr. McAleenan is an innovative, dynamic, and mission-driven leader with more than 20 years of border security, legal, and international experience and who we have relied on to protect this great Nation.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: 2014 Farm Bill provision increases availability of biobased forest products WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2014 ─ As part of the continued rapid implementation of the 2014 Farm Bill, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced proposed new actions to include new forest products in the BioPreferred® program. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: A Massachusetts man was sentenced to serve four years in prison today for hacking into computer networks around the country – including networks belonging to law enforcement agencies and a local college – to obtain highly sensitive law enforcement data and to alter academic records, as well as for possessing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Four members of a robbery crew that targeted jewelry couriers were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in conspiracy to commit a Hobbs Act robbery and related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: The former president and owner of a rehabilitation therapy services clinic pleaded guilty in Tampa today to health care fraud and money laundering charges.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Thank you for inviting me to Kansas City for the National Weather Service Employees Organization annual convention. I’d like to specifically thank President Dan Sobien for welcoming me here. As soon as my team received this invitation, I made sure to reserve today on the calendar.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will host a high-level Government of China delegation for the 25th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), December 16-18, in Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will also take part in the dialogue to address key agricultural trade issues between the two countries.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which will take place November 19-21 in Marrakech, Morocco to demonstrate the U.S. government’s continued commitment to fostering entrepreneurship around the world. On Nov. 19, her activities will focus ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: SelectUSA provided key assistance to moving $8 billion investment forward U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued the following statement regarding Sasol Limited’s energy development in Louisiana. Today, Sasol issued the final investment decision by its Board of Directors on the ethane ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Thank you for inviting me to Kansas City for the National Weather Service Employees Organization annual convention. I’d like to specifically thank President Dan Sobien for welcoming me here. As soon as my team received this invitation, I made sure to reserve today on the calendar.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman will host a high-level Government of China delegation for the 25th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), December 16-18, in Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will also take part in the dialogue to address key agricultural trade issues between the two countries.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which will take place November 19-21 in Marrakech, Morocco to demonstrate the U.S. government’s continued commitment to fostering entrepreneurship around the world. On Nov. 19, her activities will focus ...
